Another thought I've had since making this video: Pale Moss is better for moss mining! Since it doesn't generate the azalea & flowering azalea saplings, that means less inventory clutter, and no chance of accidentally growing a tree in your pit. Any other fun ideas from this snapshot? Comment below!
@@PromptCriticalJello Seems to be the same. Atleast it seems to be similar while breaking with a non-hoe. My concern is not breaking even with the bonemeal spent because we composting less now
I think it would be great if creaking hearts only appear in trees grown in the pale garden biome. That way they are renewable, but won't cause creaking mobs to accidentally spawn elsewhere. I also think it would be great to have the option to make the creaking hearts glow with a redstone charge. That way they can more easily be used for decoration. Probably only have them spawn mobs when they glow due to pale oak placed on both ends of it though.
Since you mentioned flowers missing from the pale garden on the spawn chunks, it seems like the perfect opportunity for Mojang to add a flower that gives us grey dye, the one remaining dye you can't directly farm(I think?). Also, another flower that acts like the pink petals would be lovely. In my head I call them Ashfall. Edit: Right.. purple.
Purple comes from 2-high lilac, so it can be farmed! I think cyan is the missing boy you're thinking about (that can't directly be farmed, though its components can).
@@Littlewings1211 No but the being honest you might have better luck/work with the desert than finding sniffer eggs, setting up a sniffer area and hope they sniff up the right seeds etc. But it is nice to have a flower that gives that dye and agree they should add a flower that makes grey dye from the pale garden.
@@justcallmeness lilac is magenta! speaking of dye: they need to add the green recipe (yellow + blue) since they have it for orange etc, also light purple needs to be added and green wood
Imagine a monochrome 1920s cartoon themed build. Like a little village or even just a cottage made of a black-white-gray block palette. Could go even further and do some terraforming by ripping up green grass and replacing it with pale moss and a similar looking gray block.
As a Louisianian, I have always wanted a Cypress tree with Cypress moss in Minecraft. I'm glad they have the pale moss now to make a custom Cypress tree look more realistic.
Thank you Pix for taking time for yourself! Low key brag there, “sorry, I was busy touching grass” Loved seeing you in a group photo getting with Joel, FWhip etc recently!
@@Pixlriffs there were a few of the hermit/ empire crew group photos , especially around twitchcon, so to scroll and see you in one was fantastic! I hope you chat about that some on a stream!
@@PixlriffsI was happy to see that you were enjoying yourself in the good weather. I live in a region of the US that rains ~45"/115cm in 6 months straight. When the sun shines, you answer the call. Thank you for all of the work you put into your content, it's always amazing.
@@kleinesren7064for years there has been a parity difference between bedrock and Java, where bedrock had larger salmon. Op comment still made me chuckle
Ideas to "improve" the Biome and Creaking: • Fog, this biome needs its own fog to render the players vision to get in with the spooky ambience (or a New Weather: Fog, that can also work) • More pale plants, like white pumpkins or pale flowers • The Creaking's damage and speed needs to be slightly higher, idk it's fairly easily avoidable • More Tree Shape, I get it that Mojang is insisting that it's a Dark Oak Variant, but it definitely needs it own identity • Structures would be nice, like ancient stone circle, mausoleum, or graveyard. "Ideas of Reasons to Go there" • Pale Bloom! a flower that grows on pale moss and grows to adjacent pale moss(similar to how Mushroom spreads). This Flower is rare CAN'T be collected during the day or silktouch, you need to wait for NightFall to Collect the flower, risking your life venturing in to the night while dealing with the Creaking - purpose of this flower can be a new potion ingredient for a new effect,
I think the fog should be there at night, maybe tied in with the moon cycle or particularly heavy during rainfall and storms. Having fog there always would be annoying.
@@passioninmyeyes555same. I also think it’s funny how people want different shapes, but when there is one released everyone complains it’s too difficult to harvest and don’t build with it (still convinced that the only reason poopy colored spruce is popular is because it’s the easiest to get lots of 😂😂)
I think Mojang nailed it with the creaking heart block. Redstone uses, decoration, mob spawning, ambience, mini-game usage. There is a lot to unpack with this one. The comment Pix made about the pale moss not producing as many blocks when bonemealed so that it would be easier to mine with. Also, the ambience of the biome. Fantastic content which is very usable.
I really appreciate your positive outlook!!! A lot of people have been so quick to point out what could be better but I’m really excited to check this out in my world and troll my friends with Creaking Hearts!
I can't wait to find this for my current Addams Family inspired world. This is going to make a wonderful addition to the surroundings and Morticia's greenhouse.
I *love* the pink/purple tint of the stripped logs and planks! They pair so nicely with cherry wood and I can’t wait to build with them! It’s so wild to see how green stripped birch looks in comparison! The creaking heart is also such a beautiful block! Maybe one of my fav newer blocks actually? I’m very happy they don’t spawn anything with other wood types around it though haha!
The first block I thought of when I saw the stripped Pale wood was Calcite! Maybe you checked it offscreen, but I think Calcite is another great accompaniment to the palette.
You need to crouch to strip logs while wielding an axe (edit: and while holding your shield in your off hand)... Which I like because I don't accidentally strip logs anymore 😅
I thought that was just if you have a shield in your off-hand? Because right-clicking raises the shield by default if present; otherwise it does the secondary function of the tool in your main hand.
I think the concern isn't about needing a reason to visit (or revisit) the pale garden biome, but about the lack of reason to do so at night. There isn't any reason to interact with the creaking, unless you find that experience inherently enjoyable. I'm totally fine with having unique building blocks as the only draw to visit a biome, as is the case with many other overworld biomes. However, Mojang has put significant effort into designing a totally new mob for this biome that most players will likely avoid entirely by visiting the biome only during the day. I really want the creaking to feel like it has some meaningful value as a feature, rather than existing to be avoided and ignored. Even something as simple as making the creaking drop pale oak logs on death could provide that value for me, because that would introduce a unique and interesting method for farming what would otherwise be an obnoxious wood type to farm.
I know this is supposed to be a small drop, and not a major update, but one way they could expand on this could be a special pale garden village type. It could look abandoned during the day, but have non-sleeping villagers who appear at night. They could be passive, but unsettling in some way, and should have a couple unique trades (maybe having something to do with the creaking heart). Maybe there is a locksmith villager who can convert keys from the trial chambers into keys that can be used with doors and chests.
Glad you're back but also glad that you did what you felt like doing at the time. I think I lot of creators put a lot of pressure on themselves to upload regularly and get burned out. I'm looking forward to more of the survival guide. I use it as reference for gameplay quite a bit.
I wish you could display the end texture of the creaking heart in its active state because it looks so cool. Unfortunately it turns back to gray as soon as you expose it. They should provide some kind of workaround for that for builders. Maybe make it show the active texture with redstone without actually making it active?
As a builder I'm pretty used to there being inaccessible block states. I'm sure creative builders will just adjust it with the debug stick and Survival builders will just be happy with what we get!
Isn't it always active if a creaking has spawned? I think people will nametag and hide the creaking after activating so that they can use the colorful heart block in builds
I think that the whole biome should have a wall for it's border, to better cement the fact that it is a "garden" and gardens are often private areas. Not necessarily a complete wall either, but perhaps ruined in places with age, crumbling, high in some places, nonexistent in other places, and slightly overgrown, probably with the pale moss Edit: the garden could have smaller pale oak variants like how the jungle works, adding a slight undergrowth. These could easily be used to overgrow some parts of the wall to help the immersion
I don't know if you figured it out or not, but from what I heard, the ambient noises are caused by the hanging moss, meaning you should be able to add it to your builds...
During Minecraft Live there happened to be string next to the players as they broke a Heart without Silk, and I was so excited because I thought that's what it dropped and thematically it worked so well to have a puppeteering block drop string
I think they should make it so you can choose to make the heart glow without making it a spawner, maybe with redstone or something, it's just a very nice glow that I'm sure would look great in a build, you could even call it an un-beating heart or un-creaking heart.
Thanks Pix, for essentially creating a video of what my brain does when I see a new block 😂 It's definitely a creepy mob, which is going to be a lot of fun. As soon as I saw the greyish hue I was hoping you'd try it with the Acacia, it looked so cool! I think my favourite was the leaf gradient though. Hope you enjoyed the summer, it's well and truly gone now! 😂😂 Spooky season is upon us!!
Even with this special new biome, I’m still waiting for a basic firefly or firebug mob. They could blink just like sculk blocks blink, spawn only at night around tall grass or some specific type of bush but not interact with hostile mobs besides maybe reduce their spawning. And you could craft glass jars to catch the firebugs in, so a glass jar with 1-4 firebugs would have the same light strength as 1-4 candles. And maybe they could sometimes drop a glowing ink item like glow squids do ✨ I just feel like they could add something really nostalgic and special to the game and players would feel encouraged to go exploring at night more 😆
Wow, the acacia logs go perfectly with the creaking heart! And looking at the birch next to the pale oak planks/stripped logs, I would swear it was oak!
Hey Pix, have a large area with hanging moss, and turn the environment sounds on... This is I think an underlooked mechanic that I hope becomes more commonplace in Minecraft! More creative ways to bring ambiance in your builds
45:42 wow! What he made up in seconds wood have taken me hours of planning! This is why I stick to redstone *sniffles*. That said I'm sorry for leaving multiple comments. I would forget if I didn't. Also looking forward to the Halloween build with this stuff and warped wood and crimson wood and prismarine~ Also thank you for giving me my new build palette. Finally updated from cobbled deepslate + deepslate tiles to tuff+pale moss haha
I wish the heart could light up without spawning the creaking. That glow is perfect for Halloween builds but I wouldn't want to build a Halloween town/village that I really can't wander around at night.
It seems to me that the safest way to deal with the creaking (other than leaving the biome before night falls) is to pillar up. It is easy to escape the creature's attack range. From there, bridge to the tree and disable the heart. Not fast, but pretty safe
I love the new pale wood! And OMG I LOVE the new bundles! I tried a new survival world and tried to just walk to find the biome - wandered for like 5 MC days. Just kept making bundles. Kept all the saplings and bits n bobs I found along the way. Food starters from a village. A handful of redstone, etc. Gave up and used the locate command, but still walked there. Ended up with 5 bundles in my inventory that held everything I had found. I didn't have to just drop stuff in chests along the way or let it despawn. My Pale Garden is tiny and has exactly one Creaking in it. Need to find a bigger biome once I get silk touch to get some of those blocks.
These certainly might be an interesting way to check if it is day or night in the overworld from the end or nether. Without needing a villager and bed for them to sleep in.
theres so many areas of improvement its really exciting what they might do, i figured the creaking could save its place allowing for easy use in contraptions, but one issue with this is it adds "just trap them in holes" as a permanent solution to the biome you might travel through often, having it require name tags might make it seem less viable. Another thing is that the creaking only creates particles on player hit, definitely should interact with mobs But also dispensers in this way..
i've been wanting to push for them to add lighting effects in the pale garden since mincon. like make the fact the garden lights up at night be a point of interest. flowers that you can't see during the day, only to bloom and glow yellow-orange (like the creaking's eyes) at night. i think the mosses and leaves should glow too. a slight bluish, even if it's just light level 1 or 2. i think it would be visually amazing and help reduce other mobs which i agree, ruin the mood of the biome. they hammered down with the "pale" but the "garden" feels like an empty promise. personally, i don't like the desaturation because we have so many biomes which are already desaturated. tundras with the bluish grass, savannas with the dull brown and badlands with the even worse brown. the mountain biomes don't have great colors either (cherry being the only good mountain biome). i get the wood color, and i can see potential for the wood color to grow into stained wood in the future, i just can't get into having a splotch of grey on the world and convince myself that it's interesting.
I wish they grew more in the shape of a "live oak," especially with the Spanish moss that hangs off of them. Or a Cypress tree shape would be cool, too.
Might be interesting if there were a way to modify the heart or pale oak logs to prevent the heart from activating. Like if you had a pillar of pale oak with a heart in it, then somehow "wax" the heart (similar to waxing copper blocks) and sandwiching it between pale oak logs won't activate it, but then someone does a little mischief and strips the heart to remove the waxing and it can activate. If pumpkin heads make the creaking always aggressive, I wonder if it's possible to get a charged creeper to make it drop a creaking head and if wearing a creaking head makes the creaking always passive. Or maybe wearing a creaking head in the presence of a heart might give some weird status effect that removes color saturation in your world or something, and maybe that can get added to "How Did We Get Here?" The idea of trapping a creaking and using it as a 3D compass in a minigame would be pretty interesting. Is there a limit to how far the creaking can be, or can you basically put it anywhere and it will have particles travel all the way across the world to the heart?
Thoughts: I think it would be cool if the carpet moss extended to three blocks, but it also looks good with only two I agree that it makes sense for the heart to only activate with pale wood. I think that it should emit a bit of light, and I expected light levels to not effect it, as it didn't in the preview? Maybe they'll change that I do think it makes sense for the creaking heart to only spawn in the pale oak forest; not sure about them spawning when you grow more trees in that biome. It does provide people the chance to create farms for them, though; whether for decoration or minigames If a creaking is nametagged, I don't think it should despawn (specifically because of minigames and such. it would suck to have a cool idea for some sort of game or scavenger hunt like you said, but have to constantly be re-setting the whole thing up) Honestly the pale oak doors and trapdoors are the best kind since spruce (imo) I cannot WAIT to see what BDouble0100 does with this wood, the minute I saw it I thought about how much it matches his style
The creaking's vision was covered by a block, so maybe try to be visible when blocking it in to test what it will do. Although, its eyes were lit up, so it was aggroed.
I really think it would be fun if the creaking got more aggressive as you damage the tree. Maybe one could even spawn in the daytime if you start chopping a tree with a creaking heart in it. It would be like it's protecting the tree.
The fact that the trees are oaks specifically and that it's called the creaking heart means that I've had "Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather" stuck playing in my head pretty much since the reveal, even though there's very little actually similar between the two, just like, creepy stuff, oak trees, and the word heart, and my brain decided to go wandering on its own way...
I wish there was a way to use the creaking heart like a redstone lampor other light block... it looks so good as a light block, i just want a warm wood vibe lamp without spawning enemies!!
I don't think the creaking heart burns at this time. That's means will lava and fire spread on you can quick burn down large part of the Pale Garden and the only left should be the Creaking Hart. This would be similar to TNT and Ancient Debris
I think the hanging moss might be inspired more by like, certain types of lichen - i'm not sure what they're called in English, but there's some types of lichen that grow in a way where they like, hang down from tree branches, and I think even though it's called moss, the pale hanging moss kinda looks a bit like those lichens. So in that regard I guess it makes sense you can't climb the hanging moss! irl the lichens would be way too fragile to climb on
@@justcallmenessSpanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides) is not a lichen, but it is indeed cool! I think the pale hanging moss is closer to Spanish moss than the lichen Usnea (old man's beard). At least it's called moss, and it can grow on oak (and cypress). Neither is actually a moss; the former is a bromeliad, while the latter is a lichen. I actually don't know if any moss or lichen strong enough to climb exists.
I forsee people using the creaking heart lit up in their decorating by allowing it to spawn the creaking, then nametagging him and hiding him somewhere. It just looks so cool lit up!! Edit: dang, just got to the part of the video when he despawned in daytime :(
Ok, my thoughts: 1) does nametagging the creaking prevent them from despawning in day like it does with the warden (decked out 3 hype) 2) the books should be like the deep dark in that only the creaking should spawn. Having other mobs spawn makes dealing with the creaking 15 times harder (as we saw in your case), but also it loses some of the ambient effect. This might be a bit broken I understand, but I just don’t think zombies and skeletons should be able to spawn in this place, it doesn’t feel right. 3) they need to keep some sort of filter on the sky at night, in some ways the sky makes the biome less creepy at night 4) as per usual the Etho philosophy holds true: you can solve most problems in this game with tnt. I.e., the best way to deal with the creaking is to blow up the tree. The downside to this of course is that you lose the heart blocks, but idk, maybe it’s worth the hassle of clearing the area. You can always find more pale gardens. 5) the heart block should be obtainable through the wandering trader but the saplings should not. This allows the hearts to be renewable without them appearing in the grown trees. 6) the word “Garden” in the biome name implies, at least in my opinion, that there should be some more unique plants. Not complaining about the pale moss or the hanging moss (can you craft that stuff into the pale moss blocks I wonder 🧐), but idk, I feel like it needs another plant or two to really sell the “garden” idea 7) on that note, I love all of the blocks here. The textures are all amazing. 8) as a solid number of people are saying on Reddit the biome does need a little something. I mentioned more plants earlier, what if it had randomly spawning little garden shrines or garden plots with the new plants? Maybe they could even add the tuff golem as a garden decoration? Apologies for the massive amounts of text, if I didn’t have so much to say I would’ve just emailed you and Joel on the survival guide lol (I’m 3 episodes behind not counting today’s, don’t sue me pls) Edit: disregard #1, I wrote before finishing the vid
The creaking doesn’t drop anything once it’s dispatched. I get that you are meant to silk touch the heart and that is the “drop” but other mobs drop multiple items. It would be cool if it dropped pumpkins or the regular moss variant.
If your playing in survival be careful. If I start smelting stuff and either log out or travel where the chunk despawns whatever was in the furnaces vanishes I can’t report the bug.
I wasn’t clear from the Minecraft Live presentation whether they finally gave us painted wood (colorable with dyes) or if it’s only that pale oak gives us white wood. From your video it looks like it’s the latter case.
They've never brought up the idea of painted wood. I think it's mostly because they want reasons for players to get excited about new wood types in future updates, and adding 16 colours of wood would be a huge volume of new blocks without any improvements to inventory management.
I don't think it makes sense for other wood types to summon the Creaking. It's whole theam is very heavy on the Pale Oak. It's made of pale oak like it's a guardian of that specific tree type.
That'd be fun, but I'm not sure the novelty would be worth the tradeoff of being unable to use other logs around the Creaking Heart. I'm really attached to this acacia wall now lol
@@Pixlriffs I agree the acacia wall looked awesome. Another idea. If you took the heart to another biom and put in a tree there it would slowing turned that into a pale forest of the type.
@@lyricmammal3724 Elder Guardians still have the only programmed jumpscare in the game. But I got so used to it now that other mobs scare me more by just appearing or suddenly causing damage 😅
I am not sure you can fight the Creaking, as it doesn't take damage. It's closer to Silent Hill than Minecraft. "I stared at a creepy mini-tree that was following me until I cut down it's mother."
What if the heart could be illuminated without spawning a creaking by powering it with redstone.... Would be an interesting way of controlling and using it
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Another thought I've had since making this video: Pale Moss is better for moss mining! Since it doesn't generate the azalea & flowering azalea saplings, that means less inventory clutter, and no chance of accidentally growing a tree in your pit.
Any other fun ideas from this snapshot? Comment below!
Using the vines and bonemeal can be an interesting vertical redstone counter
Always great to see another pixlriffs video. Thank you for the inspiration to continue my channel and my Minecraft building journey.
I'm not certain, but i don't think the pale moss is insta-mineable, so it would be slower.
@@PromptCriticalJello Seems to be the same. Atleast it seems to be similar while breaking with a non-hoe.
My concern is not breaking even with the bonemeal spent because we composting less now
I think it would be great if creaking hearts only appear in trees grown in the pale garden biome. That way they are renewable, but won't cause creaking mobs to accidentally spawn elsewhere.
I also think it would be great to have the option to make the creaking hearts glow with a redstone charge. That way they can more easily be used for decoration. Probably only have them spawn mobs when they glow due to pale oak placed on both ends of it though.
Since you mentioned flowers missing from the pale garden on the spawn chunks, it seems like the perfect opportunity for Mojang to add a flower that gives us grey dye, the one remaining dye you can't directly farm(I think?). Also, another flower that acts like the pink petals would be lovely. In my head I call them Ashfall.
Edit: Right.. purple.
Purple comes from 2-high lilac, so it can be farmed!
I think cyan is the missing boy you're thinking about (that can't directly be farmed, though its components can).
@@justcallmeness Cyan actually I believe can be farmed, or created from, pitcher pod plants if I recall?
@@tronman64 really?? So I no longer have to trek about for a desert to make my favourite colour?! Excellent!
@@Littlewings1211 No but the being honest you might have better luck/work with the desert than finding sniffer eggs, setting up a sniffer area and hope they sniff up the right seeds etc. But it is nice to have a flower that gives that dye and agree they should add a flower that makes grey dye from the pale garden.
@@justcallmeness lilac is magenta!
speaking of dye: they need to add the green recipe (yellow + blue) since they have it for orange etc, also light purple needs to be added and green wood
Imagine a monochrome 1920s cartoon themed build. Like a little village or even just a cottage made of a black-white-gray block palette. Could go even further and do some terraforming by ripping up green grass and replacing it with pale moss and a similar looking gray block.
That sounds badass!
Minecraft: Gameboy edition
As a Louisianian, I have always wanted a Cypress tree with Cypress moss in Minecraft. I'm glad they have the pale moss now to make a custom Cypress tree look more realistic.
Thank you Pix for taking time for yourself! Low key brag there, “sorry, I was busy touching grass”
Loved seeing you in a group photo getting with Joel, FWhip etc recently!
It was so fun to hang out with them all! Whenever I travel it's usually to visit family, so it was great to see some friends :)
@@Pixlriffs there were a few of the hermit/ empire crew group photos , especially around twitchcon, so to scroll and see you in one was fantastic! I hope you chat about that some on a stream!
@@PixlriffsI was happy to see that you were enjoying yourself in the good weather. I live in a region of the US that rains ~45"/115cm in 6 months straight.
When the sun shines, you answer the call.
Thank you for all of the work you put into your content, it's always amazing.
Wait what? When did Pix see them IRL and where are the posts? I see all of them on twitter and managed to miss this?
"Is this big salmon?!" *glares at skizz and beef*
my thoughts exactly. I still don't know what he meant tbh xD
@@kleinesren7064for years there has been a parity difference between bedrock and Java, where bedrock had larger salmon.
Op comment still made me chuckle
@@It-b-Blair oh haha, thanks for letting me know!
My brain goes to ibxtoycat first hes been touting the superiority of bedrocks big salmon for a while before the change lol
@@nmgg6928As a Bedrock player, I agree that Big Salmon were something worth bragging about.
Ideas to "improve" the Biome and Creaking:
• Fog, this biome needs its own fog to render the players vision to get in with the spooky ambience (or a New Weather: Fog, that can also work)
• More pale plants, like white pumpkins or pale flowers
• The Creaking's damage and speed needs to be slightly higher, idk it's fairly easily avoidable
• More Tree Shape, I get it that Mojang is insisting that it's a Dark Oak Variant, but it definitely needs it own identity
• Structures would be nice, like ancient stone circle, mausoleum, or graveyard.
"Ideas of Reasons to Go there"
• Pale Bloom! a flower that grows on pale moss and grows to adjacent pale moss(similar to how Mushroom spreads). This Flower is rare CAN'T be collected during the day or silktouch, you need to wait for NightFall to Collect the flower, risking your life venturing in to the night while dealing with the Creaking
- purpose of this flower can be a new potion ingredient for a new effect,
Really good ideas!!
Redstoner here. Please no more tree shapes. I'm tired of having a different farm for all the trees types
I think the fog should be there at night, maybe tied in with the moon cycle or particularly heavy during rainfall and storms. Having fog there always would be annoying.
@@Foxeyifyfeels! I always turn it off anyway though… I especially dislike the nether fog.
@@passioninmyeyes555same. I also think it’s funny how people want different shapes, but when there is one released everyone complains it’s too difficult to harvest and don’t build with it (still convinced that the only reason poopy colored spruce is popular is because it’s the easiest to get lots of 😂😂)
I think Mojang nailed it with the creaking heart block. Redstone uses, decoration, mob spawning, ambience, mini-game usage. There is a lot to unpack with this one. The comment Pix made about the pale moss not producing as many blocks when bonemealed so that it would be easier to mine with. Also, the ambience of the biome. Fantastic content which is very usable.
I really appreciate your positive outlook!!! A lot of people have been so quick to point out what could be better but I’m really excited to check this out in my world and troll my friends with Creaking Hearts!
I can't wait to find this for my current Addams Family inspired world. This is going to make a wonderful addition to the surroundings and Morticia's greenhouse.
I *love* the pink/purple tint of the stripped logs and planks! They pair so nicely with cherry wood and I can’t wait to build with them! It’s so wild to see how green stripped birch looks in comparison! The creaking heart is also such a beautiful block! Maybe one of my fav newer blocks actually? I’m very happy they don’t spawn anything with other wood types around it though haha!
The Creaking Heart is my new Copper Bulb. A block I will yearn for until it is released
The first block I thought of when I saw the stripped Pale wood was Calcite! Maybe you checked it offscreen, but I think Calcite is another great accompaniment to the palette.
36:23 if you crouch while holding the shield, then I think you can strip logs
You need to crouch to strip logs while wielding an axe (edit: and while holding your shield in your off hand)... Which I like because I don't accidentally strip logs anymore 😅
I thought that was just if you have a shield in your off-hand? Because right-clicking raises the shield by default if present; otherwise it does the secondary function of the tool in your main hand.
Correct it is if you have a shield equipped in the offhand
Yes thanks for picking that oversight up, you do have to have the shield in the offhand for that statement to be true
I just love how unsettling it was when it shambled forward at you with the pumpkin head on-so fun and spooky!
I think the concern isn't about needing a reason to visit (or revisit) the pale garden biome, but about the lack of reason to do so at night. There isn't any reason to interact with the creaking, unless you find that experience inherently enjoyable.
I'm totally fine with having unique building blocks as the only draw to visit a biome, as is the case with many other overworld biomes. However, Mojang has put significant effort into designing a totally new mob for this biome that most players will likely avoid entirely by visiting the biome only during the day. I really want the creaking to feel like it has some meaningful value as a feature, rather than existing to be avoided and ignored. Even something as simple as making the creaking drop pale oak logs on death could provide that value for me, because that would introduce a unique and interesting method for farming what would otherwise be an obnoxious wood type to farm.
I know this is supposed to be a small drop, and not a major update, but one way they could expand on this could be a special pale garden village type. It could look abandoned during the day, but have non-sleeping villagers who appear at night. They could be passive, but unsettling in some way, and should have a couple unique trades (maybe having something to do with the creaking heart). Maybe there is a locksmith villager who can convert keys from the trial chambers into keys that can be used with doors and chests.
Glad you're back but also glad that you did what you felt like doing at the time. I think I lot of creators put a lot of pressure on themselves to upload regularly and get burned out. I'm looking forward to more of the survival guide. I use it as reference for gameplay quite a bit.
I keep drifting away from Minecraft but Pixl keeps bringing me back.
I wish you could display the end texture of the creaking heart in its active state because it looks so cool. Unfortunately it turns back to gray as soon as you expose it. They should provide some kind of workaround for that for builders. Maybe make it show the active texture with redstone without actually making it active?
As a builder I'm pretty used to there being inaccessible block states. I'm sure creative builders will just adjust it with the debug stick and Survival builders will just be happy with what we get!
Isn't it always active if a creaking has spawned? I think people will nametag and hide the creaking after activating so that they can use the colorful heart block in builds
@@thriftymama3786 unfortunately they despawn when the sun comes up whether they’re name tagged or not.
@@thejonbmc I just got to that point of the video. Dang, cuz that lit up block is really cool looking
Thank you Pixlriffs for this upload. Your videos have some magic to them, and I missed it a lot❤
I think that the whole biome should have a wall for it's border, to better cement the fact that it is a "garden" and gardens are often private areas. Not necessarily a complete wall either, but perhaps ruined in places with age, crumbling, high in some places, nonexistent in other places, and slightly overgrown, probably with the pale moss
Edit: the garden could have smaller pale oak variants like how the jungle works, adding a slight undergrowth. These could easily be used to overgrow some parts of the wall to help the immersion
I don't know if you figured it out or not, but from what I heard, the ambient noises are caused by the hanging moss, meaning you should be able to add it to your builds...
During Minecraft Live there happened to be string next to the players as they broke a Heart without Silk, and I was so excited because I thought that's what it dropped and thematically it worked so well to have a puppeteering block drop string
The carved pumpkin is like Minecraft's sunglasses
I'm feeling the pale oak / cherry / crimson gradient.
To me, the pale moss feels like it would pair well with some of the lighter stone types.
The pale garden is fascinating and love it otherworldly feel. Good to see someone walking around it in survival.
I think they should make it so you can choose to make the heart glow without making it a spawner, maybe with redstone or something, it's just a very nice glow that I'm sure would look great in a build, you could even call it an un-beating heart or un-creaking heart.
Thanks Pix, for essentially creating a video of what my brain does when I see a new block 😂 It's definitely a creepy mob, which is going to be a lot of fun. As soon as I saw the greyish hue I was hoping you'd try it with the Acacia, it looked so cool! I think my favourite was the leaf gradient though.
Hope you enjoyed the summer, it's well and truly gone now! 😂😂 Spooky season is upon us!!
Even with this special new biome, I’m still waiting for a basic firefly or firebug mob. They could blink just like sculk blocks blink, spawn only at night around tall grass or some specific type of bush but not interact with hostile mobs besides maybe reduce their spawning. And you could craft glass jars to catch the firebugs in, so a glass jar with 1-4 firebugs would have the same light strength as 1-4 candles. And maybe they could sometimes drop a glowing ink item like glow squids do ✨ I just feel like they could add something really nostalgic and special to the game and players would feel encouraged to go exploring at night more 😆
the heart seems to have a wooden texture that compares to the same texture of reinforced deep slate. very cool to have it!
It would be interesting if there were color variants of the creaking depending on what wood type surrounded the heart.
New fun challenge face the ender dragon while wearing a pumpkin with an creaking heart hidden in the middle of each obsidian pillar
"Is this..Big Salmon?" god I had war flashbacks for a second there
Wow, the acacia logs go perfectly with the creaking heart! And looking at the birch next to the pale oak planks/stripped logs, I would swear it was oak!
Hey Pix, have a large area with hanging moss, and turn the environment sounds on... This is I think an underlooked mechanic that I hope becomes more commonplace in Minecraft! More creative ways to bring ambiance in your builds
According to xisuma the erie sounds i tied to the pale hanging moss
45:42 wow! What he made up in seconds wood have taken me hours of planning! This is why I stick to redstone *sniffles*.
That said I'm sorry for leaving multiple comments. I would forget if I didn't.
Also looking forward to the Halloween build with this stuff and warped wood and crimson wood and prismarine~
Also thank you for giving me my new build palette.
Finally updated from cobbled deepslate + deepslate tiles to tuff+pale moss haha
I wish the heart could light up without spawning the creaking. That glow is perfect for Halloween builds but I wouldn't want to build a Halloween town/village that I really can't wander around at night.
It seems to me that the safest way to deal with the creaking (other than leaving the biome before night falls) is to pillar up. It is easy to escape the creature's attack range. From there, bridge to the tree and disable the heart. Not fast, but pretty safe
I love the new pale wood! And OMG I LOVE the new bundles! I tried a new survival world and tried to just walk to find the biome - wandered for like 5 MC days. Just kept making bundles. Kept all the saplings and bits n bobs I found along the way. Food starters from a village. A handful of redstone, etc. Gave up and used the locate command, but still walked there. Ended up with 5 bundles in my inventory that held everything I had found. I didn't have to just drop stuff in chests along the way or let it despawn. My Pale Garden is tiny and has exactly one Creaking in it. Need to find a bigger biome once I get silk touch to get some of those blocks.
I think it would be cool if we could just power the creaking heart with redstone to light it up but not let the creaking spawn.
Glad to know you had fun in the off time. welcome back
Just have to add, I really enjoy how you play through snapshots, awesome video!
I've found so many color pallets for this wood type that would fit amazing like pale oak, cherry wood, acacia wood, mangrove, then crimson wood.
These certainly might be an interesting way to check if it is day or night in the overworld from the end or nether. Without needing a villager and bed for them to sleep in.
theres so many areas of improvement its really exciting what they might do,
i figured the creaking could save its place allowing for easy use in contraptions, but one issue with this is it adds "just trap them in holes" as a permanent solution to the biome you might travel through often, having it require name tags might make it seem less viable. Another thing is that the creaking only creates particles on player hit, definitely should interact with mobs But also dispensers in this way..
36:50: i thought you could shift right click to strip bark and remove wax with shield. Change was made trail chambers. For new lights.
Yeah, I just didn't think to shift-click on it. I have yet to get used to that adjustment
i've been wanting to push for them to add lighting effects in the pale garden since mincon. like make the fact the garden lights up at night be a point of interest. flowers that you can't see during the day, only to bloom and glow yellow-orange (like the creaking's eyes) at night. i think the mosses and leaves should glow too. a slight bluish, even if it's just light level 1 or 2. i think it would be visually amazing and help reduce other mobs which i agree, ruin the mood of the biome. they hammered down with the "pale" but the "garden" feels like an empty promise.
personally, i don't like the desaturation because we have so many biomes which are already desaturated. tundras with the bluish grass, savannas with the dull brown and badlands with the even worse brown. the mountain biomes don't have great colors either (cherry being the only good mountain biome). i get the wood color, and i can see potential for the wood color to grow into stained wood in the future, i just can't get into having a splotch of grey on the world and convince myself that it's interesting.
Awesome video! Love your content! Your survival guide is my go to whenever I am trying something new. Thanks for everything!
I wish they grew more in the shape of a "live oak," especially with the Spanish moss that hangs off of them. Or a Cypress tree shape would be cool, too.
Might be interesting if there were a way to modify the heart or pale oak logs to prevent the heart from activating. Like if you had a pillar of pale oak with a heart in it, then somehow "wax" the heart (similar to waxing copper blocks) and sandwiching it between pale oak logs won't activate it, but then someone does a little mischief and strips the heart to remove the waxing and it can activate.
If pumpkin heads make the creaking always aggressive, I wonder if it's possible to get a charged creeper to make it drop a creaking head and if wearing a creaking head makes the creaking always passive. Or maybe wearing a creaking head in the presence of a heart might give some weird status effect that removes color saturation in your world or something, and maybe that can get added to "How Did We Get Here?"
The idea of trapping a creaking and using it as a 3D compass in a minigame would be pretty interesting. Is there a limit to how far the creaking can be, or can you basically put it anywhere and it will have particles travel all the way across the world to the heart?
Thoughts:
I think it would be cool if the carpet moss extended to three blocks, but it also looks good with only two
I agree that it makes sense for the heart to only activate with pale wood. I think that it should emit a bit of light, and I expected light levels to not effect it, as it didn't in the preview? Maybe they'll change that
I do think it makes sense for the creaking heart to only spawn in the pale oak forest; not sure about them spawning when you grow more trees in that biome. It does provide people the chance to create farms for them, though; whether for decoration or minigames
If a creaking is nametagged, I don't think it should despawn (specifically because of minigames and such. it would suck to have a cool idea for some sort of game or scavenger hunt like you said, but have to constantly be re-setting the whole thing up)
Honestly the pale oak doors and trapdoors are the best kind since spruce (imo)
I cannot WAIT to see what BDouble0100 does with this wood, the minute I saw it I thought about how much it matches his style
I HAVENT SEEN YOU IN MY FEED IN SO LONG BUT IM HAPPY YOURE FINALLY SHOWING UP AGAIN
The creaking's vision was covered by a block, so maybe try to be visible when blocking it in to test what it will do. Although, its eyes were lit up, so it was aggroed.
I really think it would be fun if the creaking got more aggressive as you damage the tree. Maybe one could even spawn in the daytime if you start chopping a tree with a creaking heart in it. It would be like it's protecting the tree.
The way you said “Big Salmon” made me laugh. Made me think of the hermit craft reference….
The fact that the trees are oaks specifically and that it's called the creaking heart means that I've had "Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather" stuck playing in my head pretty much since the reveal, even though there's very little actually similar between the two, just like, creepy stuff, oak trees, and the word heart, and my brain decided to go wandering on its own way...
Was hoping you were going to come back soon. Thanks for the video as always.
One cool thing about creakings that you missed: illagers are scared of them!
I wish there was a way to use the creaking heart like a redstone lampor other light block... it looks so good as a light block, i just want a warm wood vibe lamp without spawning enemies!!
I feel like shielding from a creaking attack should be an achievement! The “aha!” Advancement
I don't think the creaking heart burns at this time. That's means will lava and fire spread on you can quick burn down large part of the Pale Garden and the only left should be the Creaking Hart. This would be similar to TNT and Ancient Debris
I like the Pale Garden, more exploring for me lol,
Also thanks for the potential Ideas, Graveyard or something spooky
I think the hanging moss might be inspired more by like, certain types of lichen - i'm not sure what they're called in English, but there's some types of lichen that grow in a way where they like, hang down from tree branches, and I think even though it's called moss, the pale hanging moss kinda looks a bit like those lichens. So in that regard I guess it makes sense you can't climb the hanging moss! irl the lichens would be way too fragile to climb on
Yes, you are right. There are a few names for it. The one we commonly use where I am is Old Man's Beard.
It's called Spanish moss here. It's really cool
@@justcallmenessSpanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides) is not a lichen, but it is indeed cool!
I think the pale hanging moss is closer to Spanish moss than the lichen Usnea (old man's beard). At least it's called moss, and it can grow on oak (and cypress).
Neither is actually a moss; the former is a bromeliad, while the latter is a lichen.
I actually don't know if any moss or lichen strong enough to climb exists.
You can strip logs while holding a shield, you have to shift
I forsee people using the creaking heart lit up in their decorating by allowing it to spawn the creaking, then nametagging him and hiding him somewhere. It just looks so cool lit up!!
Edit: dang, just got to the part of the video when he despawned in daytime :(
Ok, my thoughts:
1) does nametagging the creaking prevent them from despawning in day like it does with the warden (decked out 3 hype)
2) the books should be like the deep dark in that only the creaking should spawn. Having other mobs spawn makes dealing with the creaking 15 times harder (as we saw in your case), but also it loses some of the ambient effect. This might be a bit broken I understand, but I just don’t think zombies and skeletons should be able to spawn in this place, it doesn’t feel right.
3) they need to keep some sort of filter on the sky at night, in some ways the sky makes the biome less creepy at night
4) as per usual the Etho philosophy holds true: you can solve most problems in this game with tnt. I.e., the best way to deal with the creaking is to blow up the tree. The downside to this of course is that you lose the heart blocks, but idk, maybe it’s worth the hassle of clearing the area. You can always find more pale gardens.
5) the heart block should be obtainable through the wandering trader but the saplings should not. This allows the hearts to be renewable without them appearing in the grown trees.
6) the word “Garden” in the biome name implies, at least in my opinion, that there should be some more unique plants. Not complaining about the pale moss or the hanging moss (can you craft that stuff into the pale moss blocks I wonder 🧐), but idk, I feel like it needs another plant or two to really sell the “garden” idea
7) on that note, I love all of the blocks here. The textures are all amazing.
8) as a solid number of people are saying on Reddit the biome does need a little something. I mentioned more plants earlier, what if it had randomly spawning little garden shrines or garden plots with the new plants? Maybe they could even add the tuff golem as a garden decoration?
Apologies for the massive amounts of text, if I didn’t have so much to say I would’ve just emailed you and Joel on the survival guide lol (I’m 3 episodes behind not counting today’s, don’t sue me pls)
Edit: disregard #1, I wrote before finishing the vid
Also, as I’ve seen stated elsewhere I wish the shaping of the tree was more willow-like, it would make them feel more unique compared to the dark oak
Also also the fact that the creaking repels pillagers opens some interesting opportunities for witch farming
If you hold shift while carrying a shield you can strip logs and remove wax from copper.
The creaking doesn’t drop anything once it’s dispatched. I get that you are meant to silk touch the heart and that is the “drop” but other mobs drop multiple items. It would be cool if it dropped pumpkins or the regular moss variant.
Finally we can construct white-coloured buildings without having to use Quartz blocks nor Calcites.
Pale Oak Trees now rank first as my most favorite.
What would cherry blossoms look like if they're in the pale Garden
That regular moss block could have been from an enderman
Edit: nope, enderman can’t pick up/drop moss blocks
I wonder if snow golems can attack creakings? The particle effects would look really good on a giant volcano build
This was awesome! Thanks so much for hitting this snapshot ❤
Yessss a video and dont worry about it. As long as you make the highest quality content you can, that’s all that matters
Huh warm weather in summer in the UK? When did that happen??! Think Pixls suffering from hallucinations 🤣
i really didnt expect the creaking heart to be directional
If your playing in survival be careful. If I start smelting stuff and either log out or travel where the chunk despawns whatever was in the furnaces vanishes I can’t report the bug.
I wasn’t clear from the Minecraft Live presentation whether they finally gave us painted wood (colorable with dyes) or if it’s only that pale oak gives us white wood. From your video it looks like it’s the latter case.
They've never brought up the idea of painted wood. I think it's mostly because they want reasons for players to get excited about new wood types in future updates, and adding 16 colours of wood would be a huge volume of new blocks without any improvements to inventory management.
Hey Pix, you can strip the wood with a shield, if you crouch :)
Creaking should drop some sticks and maybe leaves when it despawns
Closest thing one can get to a mob spawn egg in vanilla survival.
I don't think it makes sense for other wood types to summon the Creaking. It's whole theam is very heavy on the Pale Oak. It's made of pale oak like it's a guardian of that specific tree type.
Someone showed the creaking spawning on glass blocks. I don't think that it is affected by normal spawning conditions like light or block type.
I've missed those dulcet tones
Weeping Angel vibes so creepy
13:54 lol the creaking broke your axe...
It would be cool if you put other wood types around the heart if would create creaking of that wood type.
That'd be fun, but I'm not sure the novelty would be worth the tradeoff of being unable to use other logs around the Creaking Heart. I'm really attached to this acacia wall now lol
@@Pixlriffs I agree the acacia wall looked awesome. Another idea. If you took the heart to another biom and put in a tree there it would slowing turned that into a pale forest of the type.
GREAT. Exactly what I wanted in Minecraft- weeping angels 😂
I feel like the creaking heart will work really well with basalt blocks in builds
Maybe the creaking heart can be a light source when using redstone on it without spawning the creaking
Am I the only one here who genuinely got scared when the creaking appeared?
I still think the Elder Guardian is the scariest mob, these wood dudes are cool looking in my opinion.
@@lyricmammal3724 lmfao so real, I remember being scared out of my mind when woodland mansions first dropped
@@lyricmammal3724 Elder Guardians still have the only programmed jumpscare in the game. But I got so used to it now that other mobs scare me more by just appearing or suddenly causing damage 😅
@@Pixlriffs I really love how well the creaking blends in with the wood at night, making it so much more scarier to suddenly come across the eyes.
Would be interesting to have pale mossy cobblestone and pale mossy stone bricks
You can strip logs while holding a shield by shift clicking.
i feel like it would be cool to be able to activate the light in the creaking heart using redstone, without making it spawn a creaking
If there would be drops from creaking heart, i want it to be a shard or someting that can be crafted to make decorative version of creaking heart.
Nobody let Cub near the Creaking Heart, his maze is deadly enough as is /j
41:05 I wonder if you can trap a creaking in a boat to keep the heart lit up? Cause would be cool to use in a custom ent or maybe as monster eyes
The creaking mob cannot go into a boat or minecart
@@mehmoodkazi7297 Noooooo! That's such a shame.
Now I wonder if we sandwich a bunch of those hearts between pale logs will they all light up?
I suspect there's no way to keep a Creaking alive during the day, since it kinda dies rather than despawning.
I am not sure you can fight the Creaking, as it doesn't take damage. It's closer to Silent Hill than Minecraft.
"I stared at a creepy mini-tree that was following me until I cut down it's mother."
What if the heart could be illuminated without spawning a creaking by powering it with redstone.... Would be an interesting way of controlling and using it